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In today's Techpresso:

👀 The Meta AI app is a privacy disaster

🤖 Mattel and OpenAI team up for AI-powered toys

💥 AMD reveals next-generation AI chips with OpenAI CEO Sam Altman

📉 Major Google Cloud outage hit internet services

💰 Meta is paying $14 billion to catch up in the AI race

🪙 Walmart and Amazon explore stablecoins

🎁 + 15 other news you might like

🔮 + 5 handpicked research papers and tools

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👀 The Meta AI app is a privacy disaster LINK
  • Users of the new standalone Meta AI app are often unknowingly publishing their interactions with the chatbot, believing them private but making them public.
  • The Meta AI app fails to clearly show users their privacy settings or explain where their shared interactions are actually being posted by default.
  • People are accidentally sharing sensitive data like home addresses, court details, and incriminating questions on the Meta AI app for anyone to see.
🤖 Mattel and OpenAI team up for AI-powered toys LINK
  • Toy company Mattel is partnering with OpenAI to create a new generation of artificial intelligence-powered toys, with the first product launching later this year.
  • The deal will infuse iconic Mattel brands like Barbie and Hot Wheels with generative AI, aiming to redefine how children interact with their environment.
  • This AI toy venture places both companies at the center of a complex debate over technology, ethics, and child development for youngest consumers.
💥 AMD reveals next-generation AI chips with OpenAI CEO Sam Altman LINK
  • AMD revealed its Instinct MI400 series AI chips, with OpenAI CEO Sam Altman confirming his company will use these new processors for artificial intelligence.
  • The MI400 series can form a server rack called Helios, a "rack-scale" system where thousands of chips function as one compute engine.
  • OpenAI provided AMD with feedback on the MI400 roadmap, indicating the AI research company's close involvement in developing this next-generation hardware.
📉 Major Google Cloud outage hit internet services LINK
💰 Meta is paying $14 billion to catch up in the AI race LINK
  • Scale AI's former CEO Alexandr Wang now leads a new Meta lab focused on building "superintelligence" and reports directly to Mark Zuckerberg.
  • Meta made a "massive new investment" in Scale AI, as Zuckerberg personally recruits researchers from rivals with seven and eight-figure compensation packages.
  • After Llama 4's disappointing debut, Meta wants to catch up with competitors like Google by building "full general intelligence" and its "leading personal AI".
🪙 Walmart and Amazon explore stablecoins LINK
  • Walmart and Amazon are reportedly mulling plans to issue their own US dollar-backed stablecoins for customers, indicating wider institutional stablecoin adoption in the future.
  • A brand-specific stablecoin payment system from either retail giant could divert billions in cash flow away from their established banking partners, shifting financial transactions.
  • Implementing a stablecoin-based payment rail promises faster and cheaper transactions, potentially helping these large companies save billions currently spent on various banking fees.

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Other news & articles you might like

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  • Google’s Gemini AI will summarize PDFs for you when you open them LINK
  • Anker is recalling over 1.1 million power banks due to fire and burn risks LINK
  • Apple confirms Siri’s delayed features won’t ship until 2026 LINK
  • Tesla sues former Optimus engineer for stealing trade secrets LINK
  • Google is shutting down Android Instant Apps over ‘low’ usage LINK
  • Shopify to enable merchants to accept USDC stablecoin payments LINK
  • Microsoft’s new Copilot Vision can ‘see’ your apps on Windows LINK
  • US says China's Huawei can't make more than 200,000 AI chips in 2025 LINK
  • Nvidia will stop including China in its forecasts amid US chip export controls, CEO says LINK
  • Apple redirects 97% of Indian-made iPhones to the US to lessen tariffs LINK
  • Half of companies planning to replace customer service with AI are reversing course LINK
  • Apple fixes new iPhone zero-day bug used in Paragon spyware hacks LINK
  • Here's the $2,000 fully AI-generated ad that aired during the NBA Finals LINK
  • Engineer creates first custom motherboard for 1990s PlayStation console LINK

Trending research and tools

Custom BitTorrent Client: a program that downloads files using the BitTorrent protocol, managing torrent data, peer connections, and file assembly. LINK
YSH Syntax Highlighting: a feature that visually distinguishes parts of YSH code with colors, improving its readability. LINK
Qrkey: a command-line tool generating QR codes from files for offline private key backup and recovering them, supporting large files. LINK
Geometry from Quantum Temporal Correlations: this paper explains how features of geometry can be determined from the relationships between quantum measurements made at different moments in time. LINK
TabM: Advancing Tabular Deep Learning with Parameter-Efficient Ensembling: the paper introduces TabM, a method to enhance deep learning on tabular data by efficiently combining multiple models while keeping the number of parameters low. LINK

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